Advent Day 4   For reasons too complicated to explain, my husband’s current contribution to family life is the restoration of a vast Lego Millennium … [Read more...]

Day 3   And so, it seems, despite only just having lit the Advent candle, we’ve already left it too late to buy the tree. The Buying of the Tree has … [Read more...]

Advent Day 2   Here is a story for the first Sunday of Advent that could not have happened on a Sunday, because it happened at a time when the shops … [Read more...]

Day 1   When I last wrote a series of Advent posts, I was driven by a concern that everyone seemed to be dying. Prince. George Michael. Carrie … [Read more...]